Developed by ASL Flurry
Time Required for Activity: 45 mins
Competencies Address:
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- Depiction
- Classifiers
- Use of Space
Objective(s):
Learners will:
- Improve use of depiction and structuring space in ASL.
Part 1 | Part 2
This activity is the second in a series of two activities. To begin with the first activity, locate the activity entitled ASL to English simultaneous interpretation: Oregon flood. For maximum learning, we recommend spacing out the time between the first and second activity. Allowing yourself to forget some of what you know about this video contributes to desirable difficulty that increases the durability of your learning.
Video Synopsis
In this ASL narrative, Laurene Gallimore tells about her experience during a flood that occurred in Oregon in the 1996. This video was taken from Language Use in ASL, created by the Region X Interpreter Education Center at Western Oregon State College.
Step 1: Preview the source video
If you have not already done so, view the source video, Oregon Flood.
Use the tips to the right of each video clip below from the Oregon Flood narrative to identify and analyze the way the speaker uses space and depiction to tell her story. After viewing each example, try producing it yourself in a manner as similar to the speaker’s as possible. By clicking on the time code, the excerpt of the video will play in a pop-up window.
Step 3: Retell with depiction and assess
Now that you have practiced telling some parts of the Oregon Flood story using depiction, try putting it all together and retell the entire Oregon Flood story. Retell the story as if it were your own, telling the story using “I” and “my” instead of “she” or “her”. Record your work.
Watch the recording of your work. How well did you incorporate the depiction from the source text? Assess your use of:
- classifiers
- spatial referents
- spatial structuring
- role shifting (constructed action and constructed dialogue)
- facial expressions
Do they look similar to Laurene’s use of them in the source text? If you can do it even better, try it again. When you are satisfied, go on to the next activity in this series entitled, ASL simultaneous interpretation of a parallel text: Oregon flood.
Learn More About Depiction
To learn more about depiction in ASL, view Miako Rankin’s online workshop, Depiction, Blending, and Constructed Action…Oh My! (Gallaudet University Regional Interpreter Education Center (GURIEC), Washington, DC, March 30, 2012):